Nehemiah 10:35

WEB

and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to the house of the Lord;

KJV

And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:

Commentary

And to bring the firstfruits of our ground,.... Not that they cast lots to do this, but they bound themselves with an oath, according to the law, to do it; this is the first of all the fruits of the earth, Exo 23:19 , though Aben Ezra restrains it to the sheaf of the firstfruits, and to the two wave loaves, Lev 23:10 , and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees; which, as Aben Ezra observes, their wise men restrain to the seven kinds only mentioned in Deu 8:8 .